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Research group working on dipolar #quantum #ultracold gases at @uniinnsbruck.bsky.social and @iqoqi.bsky.social | @oeaw.bsky.social
👉 Register now for the Long-Range Interactions Workshop 2026!

📍I’m pleased to share that this year, the workshop will take place in the beautiful setting of Les Houches, from February 15–20!

🗓 Register until December 1st
🔗 Program, list of speakers & registration: www.erbium.at/longrange26/...
November 18, 2025 at 3:22 PM
I’m excited to share that Silvia Trabucco, our new theory postdoc, has been awarded the QuantA Fellowship 2025 – Empowering Women in Quantum Science by Quantum Science Austria! 🚀

Congratulations, Silvia, and welcome to the team! 👏 💫

📸 Photo credit: Quantum Science Austria / David Jordan
November 17, 2025 at 8:38 AM
🎉 Celebrating 100 Years of Quantum Science at “Willkommen Quantenwelt”, organized by QuantA!
🎤 Francesca was on stage for a live interview session and Arfor performed his song “Laser Cooling & Ultracold Atoms” together with several group members. 🕺 💃
📷 Photo credit: FF Group / Matthias Heisler
November 10, 2025 at 11:25 AM
✨Check out our new theory paper on arxiv, "Topology meets superconductivity in a one-dimensional t-J model of magnetic atoms"!
👉 arxiv.org/abs/2509.03387

💡In a highly controllable version of the iconic t-J model, we uncover a range of exotic phases, including topological superconducting states.
September 5, 2025 at 2:25 PM
🎉 Congratulations to Dr. Elena Poli!
🎓 Elena from our Theory team has successfully defended her PhD thesis, “Unveiling the Superfluid and Solid Behaviour in Dipolar Supersolids”!
🚀 We wish you all the best for your future, Elena!
August 29, 2025 at 11:34 AM
💡 This is a tenure-track opportunity with strong institutional support and the opportunity to lead the scientific and technical development of a cutting-edge quantum experiment from its early stages.

👉 Apply here: dipc.ehu.eus/en/dipc/join...
August 25, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Congratulations to Eva @evacasotti.bsky.social who was awarded with the 𝟏𝐬𝐭 𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐳𝐞 of the Euregio Young Researcher Award 2025! 🎉

Find more information about the prize here: www.europaregion.info/euregio/proj...

📸 Land Tirol/Sedlak
August 19, 2025 at 8:46 AM
🥳Congratulations to Lauritz Klaus who successfully defended his PhD thesis!
🌀 Lauritz did some amazing work on supersolids and vortices in the Er-Dy lab.
🎓 He is now a PostDoc in the Erbium lab of Rob Smith in Oxford.
👏Goodbye and we wish you all the best for your future, Lauritz!
July 17, 2025 at 7:49 AM
👏 A huge thank you to all the speakers, sponsors, organizers, and participants of YAO 2025! ⚛️
📆 Last week was packed with insightful talks, poster sessions, social events, a startup panel, industry presentations, and lab tours — what an amazing experience! 🤩
📸 Photo credit: D. Jordan / IQOQI
July 14, 2025 at 12:39 PM
▶️ Today, the 2025 edition of the Young Atom Opticians Conference (YAO) has started here in Innsbruck!
🙋‍♀️We thank Clemens Ulm and @evacasotti.bsky.social, PhD students from our group, and Johanna Hennebichler and Alberto Canali, PhD students from Rudi Grimms group, for orgnanizing the event!
July 7, 2025 at 12:10 PM
🎉 Congratulations to our PhD student Eva Casotti for winning the “Best Student Paper Award 2025” of the @uniinnsbruck.bsky.social!

🏆 The prize was awarded for her excellent paper, “Observation of vortices in a dipolar supersolid” published in the Nature journal.

Photo Credit: Universität Innsbruck
June 25, 2025 at 4:08 PM
📢 Job Opportunity in our group!
We invite you to apply for the position as a

🔬 Academy Scientist (f/m/x) in experimental quantum physics

focusing on dipolar quantum gases and Rydberg physics. Join us as an advanced scientist that is of great long-term importance in our research strategy.
June 23, 2025 at 7:43 AM
🚨 Check out our latest paper on "Light-Assisted Collisions in Tweezer-Trapped Lanthanides" on arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2506.05123!

💡 In a combined effort of our theory team and the Treqs experiment, we study the tweezer population dynamics during light-assisted collisions and cooling processes.
June 16, 2025 at 2:06 PM
🎥 Watch Francesca's keynote speech at this year's Stupor Quanti event, hosted by the University of Naples Federico II.
The talk dives into some of our group’s most exciting research findings ⚛️
📺 Watch here 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSyG...

#QuantumMechanics #Research #StuporQuanti #ScienceTalk
June 16, 2025 at 12:43 PM
So great to run all together! 4 teams, 16 of us 😉Thanks @atominnen.bsky.social and @iqoqi.bsky.social for organizing it!!
May 25, 2025 at 7:44 PM
📽️Our group is featured in the ORF Tirol documentary “The Future Begins Now – Innsbruck at the Center of Quantum Research” (in German)! Éric Berdaguer explores Innsbruck’s rise in quantum science, from Zeilinger’s work to today's cutting-edge research.🏆

📺 Sun, May 18, 18:25, ORF 2 – Don’t miss it!
May 16, 2025 at 1:39 PM
🎓 PhD in the mountains or by the sea? Why choose? Join us at @dipcehu.bsky.social in San Sebastián 🌊 with strong ties to Innsbruck 🏔️! Explore tweezer-based atomic quantum simulation in a brand-new experiment!
👉 Apply here: dipc.ehu.eus/en/dipc/join...

#PhD #QuantumPhysics #UltracoldAtoms #Hiring
May 16, 2025 at 12:16 PM
What do ultracold quantum gases and neutron stars have in common? This is the question Manfred is going to answer at the SciComm event Pint of Science Innsbruck next Monday (May 19)! 🍻🎤
Talk in German – come for science, stay for drinks!
🎟️ pintofscience.at/event/from-s...
#SciComm #PintofScience
May 12, 2025 at 8:12 AM
💡 We’re featured in today’s Quantum Snapshot by QuantA!
⚛️ The spotlight is on IQOQI Innsbruck @iqoqi.bsky.social and the atom*innen initiative @atominnen.bsky.social.

Pictured (left to right): Our PhD students Sarah Embacher, Elena Poli, and Eva Casotti.

📸 Photo credit: IQOQI | D. Jordan
April 17, 2025 at 8:24 AM
📽️ Francesca is featured in the social media campaign #breakthebias of Austria’s Ministry of Education, Science and Research!
👩‍🔬She highlights the importance of women’s perspectives in science and advocates for more women in leading positions to serve as a role model.

#breakthebias #equality #bmbwf
April 10, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Registration is now open for the Long-Range Workshop 2025 taking place Sepltember 21-24 at the Old Castle Stuttgart! Join for an insightful conference in a unique setting.

🗓 Register by July 15 to secure your spot: www.pi5.uni-stuttgart.de/news/longran...

#LongRangeWorkshop #UniversitätStuttgart
April 7, 2025 at 4:36 PM
On Tuesday, the groundbreaking ("Spatenstich") for the new House of Physics took place on our campus. 🏗️ What is still a construction site now, is expected be a finished building in 2028, and we are very much looking forward to our new lab and office spaces! 🤩
#HouseofPhysics #CampusDevelopment
April 4, 2025 at 3:12 PM
The review “Recent progress on quantum simulations of non-standard Bose-Hubbard models” by Priv. Doz. Dr. Manfred Mark and collaborators has been accepted to Reports on Progress in Physics!

Read the full article here: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
March 24, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Night Ski with the Group! :-) Very cool
March 10, 2025 at 9:53 AM
These are the last days to apply and work with us in our new labs in san sebastian! Unique opportunity to do your PhD enjoying the beautiful mountains of innsbruck in Austria and the amazing sea coast of San Sebastian in Spain!
February 27, 2025 at 8:44 PM